6 Doctors Among 8 Held In U.K. Bomb Plot

British Police Investigating Three Failed Car Bombings In London And Glasgow

(CBS/AP) 
Another Internet forum — a discussion of the 1948 war between Israel and the Palestinians, during which time many Palestinian families fled as refugees to Jordan — contained an audio file attributed to Asha. CBS News was not immediately able to retrieve the audio. The forum was dated May/June 2006, and was titled as an oral discussion of the "disaster in al-Dawayima," referring to a town near Hebron in the West Bank.

Asha's father said his son was not affiliated with radical groups while he lived in Jordan.

The doctor's brother Ahmed told The Associated Press in Jordan he had heard the media reports and said his sibling "is not a Muslim extremist, and he's not a fanatic."

"It's nonsense because he has no terror connections," he said.

"This continues to be a fast-moving investigation and I am grateful to the public for their perseverance and support during these difficult times," Assistant Chief Constable John Malcolm said as he announced the sixth and seventh arrests Monday.

Police carried out a second controlled explosion Monday at the Royal Alexandra hospital in Paisley, Scotland, where the driver of a gas-filled jeep that rammed into the front of Glasgow's airport on Saturday was being treated, under guard, for severe burns.

Police earlier cordoned off a temporary housing building for staff at the hospital and called in the bomb squad. Police conducted the first controlled explosion Sunday on a vehicle parked at the hospital which they said also could be linked to the plot.

On Friday, authorities thwarted coordinated bomb attacks in central London after an ambulance crew outside a nightclub spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes that turned out to be rigged with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. A second Mercedes filled with explosives was found hours later in an impound lot, where it was towed for parking illegally. (Read more on London)

British media organizations reported that all of the suspects in custody were thought to be of Middle Eastern origin.

A realtor in Glasgow has said that police were on the trail of the airport bomb suspects minutes before the attack.

Daniel Gardiner of the Let-It agency said officers had contacted his company after tracking phone records linked to the foiled London car bomb attacks. He said police left a card at the home of a colleague on Saturday, asking him to get in touch with authorities.

"The card was put through prior to the incident at Glasgow Airport," said Gardiner, adding that police were interested in the tenant who had taken a six-month lease on a house.

Police on Sunday searched a property rented by Gardiner's company in Houston, near Glasgow Airport. Gardiner said police interviewed staff at the Let-It office and took away all documentation about the tenant.

"We are learning a great deal about the people involved in the attacks here in Glasgow and in the attempted attacks in central London. The links between them are becoming ever clearer," Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorist unit, said in Scotland.

"I'm confident, absolutely confident, that in the coming days and weeks we will be able to gain a thorough understanding of the methods used by the terrorists, the way in which they planned their attacks and the network to which they belong."

Britain raised its terror alert to "critical" — the highest possible level — and the U.S. homeland security chief, Michael Chertoff, said Sunday that air marshals would be added to overseas flights. (Read more)

"Al Qaeda has imported the tactics of Baghdad and Bali to the streets of the U.K.," said Lord Stevens, Brown's terrorism adviser, referring to the 2002 and 2005 attacks on the Indonesian resort island that killed more than 200 people and the daily car bombings in the Iraqi capital.

[azhitman2]

Another Mohammed. Who would have guessed?

[jscribe58]

Maybe we are finally getting to the point of defending ourselves, in spite of the ACLU's attempt to stop the muslim typecast as the terrorists. We did not set the typecast, up - the terrorists did - by simply ALL being muslim.

WAnt the public to believe differently? Let's see a Christian terrorist - let's see an Asian terrorist - let's see a black terrorist(who is not muslim) What?
Haven't got one? My goodness, where did we EVER get the idea that terrorists were all Islamic? Back to the drawing board.

[cbs_oliver]

What is the meaning of the claim: "CBS News confirms that in 2004 the current head of al Qaeda in Iraq was instructed by then-head Abu Musab al-Zaraqawi to recruit these people to move to the West and easily integrate until time came to strike."

It seems very important, but it is suspiciously non specific. Who are "these people"?

If it refers to the people arrested specifically then it should be the headline.

It should be explained or dropped from the story.

In general, it seems better for journalists to stop accepting the branding people as al-Qaeda without evidence of real organizational connection.

[ajmarine1]

Asia Times: Pakistan to Allow NATO "Hot Pursuit" of Taliban
Filed under: Post, Indy Voter Indy Voter @ 05:00:19 pm

Fresh from tomorrow's headlines (actually, it's already tomorrow in Karachi) comes this Asia Times article indicating that Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has yielded to the wishes of NATO's forces in Afghanistan and will permit NATO forces to conduct hot-pursuit actions against the Taliban and al-Qaeda across the border into Pakistan. The article also says Musharraf will make an important address to his nation on this topic within the next couple of days.

Pakistan has resisted NATO's calls for the right to pursue these militants across the border since the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001. The policy made some sense then, even though it infuriated many in the west, because Pakistan does have a right to dictate to its allies who can conduct military operations within Pakistan's borders. However, imo Pakistan has failed badly in hunting down these militants within their borders, and with increasing unrest in the cities of Pakistan Musharraf will be even harder pressed to conduct military operations in these border areas than he already was. I welcome this change in policy from Musharraf, even if, as I suspect, it's being done reluctantly.

[redfiveuk]

YYeah thanks Tony Bliar this is the legacy you leave us in the UK after 10 years of pushing your Politically Correct agenda. After banging on to all members of the public how we need ID cards, we now find out you let doctors in with no checks at all. And if someone comes from a country where they can not be verified like Afghanistan you still let them in, UK gov = incompetent idiots. We never asked or voted for these open door immigration policies and you repeated told us it was for our good but now the truth is out it was just another one of your many lies.

[brianbwb-2009]

"And although he has not yet been charged, there are suggestions that he is central to the plot to blow up two massive car bombs in the heart of London last Friday,..."

And on the strength of "suggestions", the media basically calls him a terrorist.

Let's hope they are *** good suggestions, backed up with evidence...

[hamiltongrad]

OUT THE WINDOW:


While the Progressives in the USA and UK would like to think that the "root cause" is economic, and if only these people had the resources and money and jobs they would be just like us, well it is not so. These were educated Doctors, and sometime during their Western training they were taught how to take care of burn patients, and I imagine that lesson did not stick.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE ? Where is the outrage ?
I am sure the UK colleagues were nice to these guys, even had them out to dinner.
We are brain washed. We believe that being nice to some one evil is all you have to do. Just talk, work things out. That , my friends , is out the window.

[iseeyou4-2009]

nice logo
war is peace slavery is freedom ignorance is power

"terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than the fear of sudden death."
-Adolf Hitler

[tim8559]

to see an even bigger idiot than the ones talked a/b in this bomb plot go to FELONYMILLS. COM

[rudy654-2009]

It's amazing that these were doctors, yet. One would think that being very educated would have made better people of them.

[myidoncbs]

re: Bush Commutes Libby Sentence
(where CBS is "temporarily" preventing anyone from entering any comments, "in order to give everyone a chance to comment".)

Once again, Bush proves that "the rule of law" is meaningless. Loyalty to your co-conspirators is all that matters.

If there remains even one single "God-fearing conservative Christian" or "red blooded American" who still supports Bush after he commuted the sentence of a man who was involved in deliberately blowing the cover of a CIA agent who was working to stop the proliferation of WMD, the very WMD that supposedly made it necessary to attack and destroy the nation of Iraq, then I say that person is utterly brain-dead.

Democrats may have their flaws, but G*d D*mn these Republicans! It's no wonder there's lots of 9/11 conspiracy theories; I wouldn't be a bit surprised by ANY criminal act Bush and his gang commit.

[libocrat]

I'm a little confused. Can someone help me out here?
Islam. Isn't that the religion of peace?

[tomflint69]

fdgfdg

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frightening world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish, how sad.

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frighteneing world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish, how sad.

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frighteneing world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish, how sad.

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frighteneing world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish, how sad.

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frighteneing world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish, how sad.

[tibu987]

What a murderous religion these terrorists
follow. All the religions that I know of preach peace and love thy neighbor, be tolerant of others, etc.
Is it any wonder that people in the free world feel threatened by and are afraid of all Arabs?
It is a frighteneing world we live in and in which many innocent people must die.
How foolish.

[seven-pesos]

***idiot*** ***snake***, ***bush***, ***provoking*** ***war*** ***and*** ***hatred***.

***does*** ***bush*** ***think*** ***these*** ***muslims*** ***are*** ***like*** ***southerners***?...

***lost*** ***every*** ***war*** ***they*** ***ever*** ***started***.

***no***, ***these*** ***muslims*** ***will*** ***fight*** ***to*** ***the*** ***bitter*** ***end***.

***they*** ***don***'***t*** ***surrender*** ***like*** ***those*** ***confederate*** ***snakes***.

***war***, ***hate***, ***phony*** ***christian*** ***creeps***...

***nothing*** ***good*** ***comes*** ***out*** ***of*** ***the*** ***south***!